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.-14' a rmi m .mi win "*"v>'>-WJ^TCwyA.{ fin, m*>re than fifteen hundred miles. J ! \Ion?* (lie \\ woie ?>| this extent tliere is, < ~ ^ I with lew exceptions 1'elU averaging in i breadth frofii forty to sixty miles of low, i < sandy country, intersperse;! wi'h sand- I ' lulls and unhealthy swamps, whose puis- ' ' onous exhalations, under the influence of ' a southern sun, are almost us unfavorable ' to the European constitution as the ex- !i halations of the Niger or the Nile, hut ' which experience has proved to be con- ! genial to the African race. There are ; portions of this region of great fertility ' and in the highest stale of cultivation; '? hut much the greater part is too poor in its native state to attract a dense popula- j lion, until the lei tile lands of the West >ihu!l have been occupied. This is tnc f true reason why population has not ad. v ineed 50 mindly in the slavehoh i ig - - 1 - - . - . ? I States winch border on the coast. U.het ( reasons m iy i?e assigned why population 1ms not advanced to the same extent in : some of tin; others. For example, I have I heard Kentucky represented us almost a j perfect ivlen; and, although 1 have j liever visjtcd that Stale, I have seen j some hue apeciuiens of her productions ' in the^rnus homo on this ilior. But still , it may hti said that, with all her natural ! advantages, populat on has not advanced .so rapidly as in the neighboring statu of Oho. The cause is obvious. Her in-j habitants have turned their attention ver\ tu'ieh to pasturage. Her wealthy pro. ! ;pri<jtors have purchased the farms of .heir i floorer nciglrUors; and blooded horses, I and Durham cattle, and B.ukslnre nog-, 1!?c overthrow of one of the institution* of c their own country ? s The gentleman from Massachusetts ' < has said that " Texas was curved with jl the sin of shivery restored, ' and even he i was forced to n^'kixmletl^c. -in STlhsfancc t that tlie South was not so deeply guilty. < Texas, guilty as the gentleman supposes < her, has never forged fetters for ttre arms < f a freeman. The slaves which she j n loads are hereditary bondmen, taken from I this country ; ami when she contrasts i her rapid progress in prosperity with the ; i inlxrcilc and wretched condition of the : : neighboring provinces of Mexico, it is i i Irot likely that, with all (he imprecations ; ii>at can be poured upon her head, she will be disposed to abandon tins institution. So opinion of this If tine can cither : I strengthen or weaken the rights of the j slaveholders of this country to ho(4 their j f slaves. Wc hold them under the laws oft . our respective Slates, guarantied and ] I sanctioned by the Cons'itution of the I < fTnjted States, ft is a question with '< wiiiuh the people of the unn-slavehoi iing | ? Slates havu nothing to do poli;i< a'ly, ex- 1 t ropt so far n# tliey arc hound hy the '< Constjtutjon. which hinds us all together c \i) maintain and support the institute n I guarantied hy that instri m nt?>hliga. ? lions that are reciprocal ?Jj 'oughout ?il! - - 1 l -. l. ...in kin I f!io I iho stares, qnn which wm > . ...? t r.~ . tit' the South to go lo war, if nrce vsarv. J ? Pi protect th<^ property of tho \or|!i o ; ? pr-eSf.'fVe the integrity of the territory of j ; the most northern or most western Slate 1 in the (/ninn? 1 13ut, although jrro'< var.t to Ihcsulre-t Invetto .some extent heon substituted for | 4 tic n and women, who in their turn have nitrated to c'lC.ijKT lands, and carried civlii/.atiou still further West, l'ew j Stales, of equal ao>, liave advanced so i r ipsil'y as Tennessee in population for tlir ' i(Mt ten year Si Out let us look a* thissukjoct in anoth- : aspect. The pipducliou* of the slave- { labor of the South is one of the p-iucipal 1 means |?y which tins nation has ris^n tr? ii;ts present commercial importance. Alter ' wipplvinjr oitr manufactures with the raw | material of cotton, and almost the entire ! consumption of the country in rice and , tobacco, tlio.se three great staples raised in a section of the cottnlry containing ! than a third of (he population, con. di lute more than two thirds of the export? I ?h the domestic produce of the whole i Union. To say nothing of rice and to- j K.iccs), the single article of cotton pro- j diiced at the South, in its cultivation, ' manufacture, and sale, does more to feed tnc hnngrv, to clothe the naked, and i.iuiltT-ihnn nrnnnrr men. than IS produced hy times ttic population in ! h.iv other part of the world. Abstract this article from commerce, and you would not only reduce millions to wretche Iiicss and want who have never seen an i African slave, hut you would cover the) earth with barbarism. The possession of; this ureal key of commerce will do more Ti J . to preserve our amicable relations witb England than would an army of a Iiuii did! thousand men. or a navy twice a.? J fitron;; as the one that we have. ! it appeal from this statement that ; elavryy low weight |iHe pn incubus op i lhe country, and that our advancement j ' has been retarded bv its existence among ,? ? i i?s? If gentlemen suppose that cotton ( ' ran he cultivated extensively for export 1 where African slavery does not exist, i j: n"'d hut refer them to the Republics of i 1 fcoutii Amecica. and to Mexico, where the ' rliaintc and soil arc equally advantageous, i IVoin no portion of South America, e\- : 1 ccpt Brazil. where this institution is still > preserved, is cotton a valuable article of I export. . I may be pointed to liie East ' indies, and referred to the great increase ? of the imj?ort of cotton from that region | < into England for the last year or two ? J t This may be attributed to the combined r influence of the present condition of; a tilings in tho East, bv which the cultiva- :i 1i<?u of the poppy has been checked, tlic < hiiia market closed against India cotton j r ;d the strong temporary stimulus of i English abolitionism. I would be p!o:i?ob 1 v it a enndid nlmlitionist (looking at Mr. ; a iSlado) would inform me how far the alio- < thmjstK of country depend upon Rid, i c il not from iho British Government, at v least troui British subject*. in promoting i >cfore tho committee, ami ??i>ly nuthoriz- ! id hy the course winch has been taken, n this debate by the gentlemen who pre- , :cdcd ine, i wi!l, for the purpose of show-; ng the gross injustice of taunting upon is upon this subject, enter into a brief ( listoiy of African slavery. The African iluvu trade, as is known I presume to ^very gentleman of the House, was com-1 mouced by the Portuguese, at that time an important couimerciai and navigating people, about the middle of the loth century. It, however, made hut little pro- j gross until early in the 16th century, i when tho Emperor Charles the 5th, from j motives of humanity, and to prevent the j destruction of the Indians engaged to ; working the mines in the Spanish West j India islands, authorized (lie importation ( nf Africans. From that time it rapidly j spread throughout all the Southern Euro on this licnisolitiie; and it ? |?'/U II -- p ?T mav by truly -- uitl thai the South has never j what had the question presented to her under circumstances thai she couid exercise thcchoico whether she would or would not | allow tliis institution to exist upon her soil/ I have seen it historically stated that, j as oarlv "as tOOd," the very year that : the gentleman's ancestors landed at Ply- | mouth, in Massachusetts." aud only a- i bout thirteen years after the sentiment at | Jamestown, in \ irgin.n, a Datcli vessel: from the coast of Cioua Railed uj> the i James rivCr aud lauded the tirst African , slave that was ever brought to I>:il s i \meriea." Aliican slavery then, is coeval ! in this country with its settlement by a , civilized and C'hiistian race of men. Not i only African slavery, hut the African ' slave trade, existed through the entire i period of our colonial dependence on the i mother country; through the war of the j Revolution ; during the period that we | were united under the articles of Con fed- j oration; and under the Constitution by i virtue of which we are now assembled, j down to the year The Constitution j expressly declares? | The migration or importation of such i persons as any of the States now existing j >h ili think proper to admit, shall not he j prohibited by Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight; j but a tax or duty may he imposed on j such importation not exceeding ton dollars for ea'-h p r?on." Thus we see that not only African j slavery is, hilt ihe African slave trade i f>vnr*-?lv recognised by the Consli- i ...... - -, . - - tulion under which wo are assembled ; a trade which, permit me to say, was con- i detuned at the South he Co re it was at the , North?-a trade which is now condemned ' at the South n# nv.cii as it is at the North; 1 and a trade eH'eotiially to suppress which j I am willing and prepared to go ?.< Car as J lio wiU pro farthest; hut, under the I pretext of suppressing whteh, | hiu not | willing th?t the ling of titv country should j he wantonly insulted l?v tho cruisers o?a ' foreign Power. The gentleman, in his ! remarks on yesterday, spoke- of it as a re- j mark-able tin ig that, wtiiie a member ot Mr. Monroe's Cabinet. he should have reusted liieelainiofthe British (Government to search our vessels for the alleged oh- j ject of suppressing this trade, while | Southern slaveholders, members of the i same Cabinet, were in favor of it. I do | not tinnk that it is at ail remarkable; for f Chore wore any portion of this country mgaged in the Vfrican slave trade, thev I CO 7 were not the people of the South; and if he people of rinv section of this country ire inorcNnlcresleii lliuii all the rest in j oppressing it. thev are the 'people of the South. In addition to rhe motives which -- ?"""Iikhc ill tin* Union. I >peraiw on ui 'n;i n. % iiw.,.-, ... ,?u ... ( ve at the South have the additional mo- j iveol Hi lt'-mterext to suppress this trade; 'or, as must he evident to all, the introluetion of every additional slave info nnv if toe West India islands or on ativ part ?f tl.e continent, increases the competi-j ion of sieve labor, and reduces the value | n't hose already here. This, therefore, I I is the gentlemen seems to suppose, is not ' i Southern question ; and, although we I ue not willing thai England should he j icrmittcd to prescribe to us a new rule j ipoo the subject of search, neither are we j filling that our flag should protect nspirite. I acknowledge the difficulty of t* 111 - ricnt action on tile part ol the cruisers of J :?thi?r nation in suppressing this trade ! vithout a mutual right of visitation, at. j ended by sufficient examination to as- j .ertain the nationality <>f a suspicious ves. j iel over whose deck the flag ol' cither is; iiifurled. If it where will you place thoi i:nit between examination and search; or, f y on permit the one, how can we insure ! o our vessels engaged in lawful com- j ncrce protection against the abjsos iucilen' to the other? We have hv our legislation inflicted no vrnngs upuii AI'ricH, certainly none since ! [?(H. It is different, however, with ! England, and perhaps her zeal imv bo 1 ncreased from a desire to make some re- : ribnlion for the great stimulus given to j he African slave trade *hv her ill-advised fr id vised emancipation acts. I will road from a British Review of, ugh character. Blackwood's M iga/.ine . or July, 1^31).) 1 wish the accounts ,vore later: bit this debate coming up on- ! jectedlv, I am not provided with them, j Vfler showing from returns laid before , ^riia.nents that the annual production j .1" tin?r;,r_ which had for seven vears pre " ""mfk ? T - _ m'ous to 1 833 anionn(f"J in Jamaica to j lie average of 93,156 hogsheads, had. in lie year 1830, been reduced to 01.60-1; irul, fr. m accounts Unit had been receiv. > , woul ! probably not amount to l(),()9fl logheads in 1839, the review proceeds is follows: ' In short, the agricultural produce of lie island is totally disappearing; the no-j ^roes, in the trreat majority of instances, 1 Mlher will not work at tail for any wa^es, ir are so extravagant in their demand for! kvajjes, and so irregular and inconstant in !n;ir MuIjiN, ns to icnCcr it niio^uinur iui. j .u^ibk' tu continue the cu!;.'.ut:r?n ol'bU 1 JHIUJU J1 * ,T ?- J " ! ' ' iXir of rofTae with any prospcd of a profit. J * Unless some other race can be introduced * who will supply their place by free labor, I and they peaceable re'ire to ihi moun- J tains in the interior, there to df int and , lead a life of suva^c indolence a: d penury,' | nothing is nv?re certain than that in five ; . 1# years tue cultivation of sugar in the West Indies will have entirely ceased, and nine* j ' tenths of the estates wi!J have irrovoca- ! hly reverted to a state of N ature. Could j any thing else have been expected? St. ( . Domingo, before tlie emancipation of its ; j negroes, proluced 700,000,000 pounds ; i of sugar, being more than all the rest of! * -t_ > i . a i . . i i me wor n put logfiuor; now n impori* , ' th?it art icrlo of produce. * * * * Xu other result could possibly have been an- ! ( ticipntcd from a tnensxire which, however | | well intended, was founded on such ah- | i surd and delusive principles as the slave ; " emancipation net. The principle on j < which it proceeded was, that five years!' were suffi ient to clothe the slave with : the habits and desires of a freeman, and . render the transition, from servitude to j , liberty safe and salutary; it may safely i < be affirmed that fire hundred years would ' have hcon little enough for the inomen- J tous change. How long did it take to | 1 . . k I ! wear out slavery in the British islands? j Five centuries. Why was it never , found possible to extirpate it even ainidsf all the refinements and civilization cf Greece an I It >:ne? Why docs it still exist, in undiminished and undiminishing., vig >r, over two-thirds of the globe? Ev.? . ? . deiitly because it is a necessary step in the progress of civilization; because without it savage man never has worked, an f j never will work; because without its con- j corn the human race would bo chained i forever to the hunter or shepherd state; because, hut for the slavery of our Saxon . nrocrtmiiors, we would now have been l I ' wandering in the woods; because, what- j ever evils may be attendant on servitude, j, and they arc many and grievous, they | arc trivial in comparison of the universal ? and widespread penury, the total stoppage 1 of the advance and prospects of the hu | man race, which instantly follows the cursing of uncivilized man with the nnini. . i nal blessings, hut the real destitution, of j freedom. * * * * Does the cessa j ' linn of the slave trade over the globe, i the evident amelioration of the African j race, and the stoppage of the uuutto * horrors of the middle passage, console j the fri .mds of humanity of all their liopo# , and blasting of their enpectations on the j other side of the Atlantic? Alas! here , tiie prospect is even more gloomy than j on the sunny slopes of Jamaica, now j choked with weeds, or the rich marshes of Guiana, fast r lapsing into jungle. The slavo trade .been doubled in extent and quadrupled in horrors throughout the globe by the monstrous act; and the. sufferings of the African race, under European cupidiy, are now incomparable greater than when the philanthropy of WiTberforLC and ! Clarksori first intcrferred for their relief. The rapid decline in the agricultural produce of; tb? firitish Wesr. Zndia is ands ha* giveu i impulse to the foreign slave colonies which is almost incredible, and augmented to an ex* j tent which it is piteous to think of both the ! number of biac'ia wno are annually torn froin i their hornet and their children in A'rica and J the barbarity with wliich they arc treated on ' '< their passage to the American shores. * *!' + One way, and one only, ol'stopping the in- | fernai traffic ex sts; and th it is, enabling the ;, .. . . -l - A ! BnUsli planter, Willi tnaiiuiiary slaves, gi ?u- ; ually improving in industry, to undersell the 1 foreign slaveholder in the supply of the world ! with sugar. That method?the simple, j.igt, 1 progress.ve method of Nature?was in sat-is- J1 factory progress; and the siave trade must * have declined, and perhaps in the course of | ages expired, from the eiF.'Ct ol ih* competi ji tion of the British statu nary serf with the! foreign imported slave, when the whole pro- , gross was stopped by the emancipation act;l our own islands reduced to ruin; our own ! 1 slaves resorted to savage life; and a new iin- J ? pulse, to which philanthropy can assign no. i limits, communicated to the execrable traffic ! | in tiuni m flesh " j | I might refer to other testimony, hut the j extracts which I have read arc sufficient to ' show the efl'.cts of ernauicapatiou of madness i ; in the British West India islands and on the I S African slave trade?effects which were | I doubtless not. foreseen until ii was too late to recall the fatal act by which the fai'e^t and : \ richest porno : ot the British empire h is been j. ruined, and mcaluablc evils inflicted on the I cause of humanity. It is certainly a politi- j T cal anomaly that, while England has at such I heavy sacrifices attempted to assert the rights ' ' of the African, race, * lie voice of humanity ; f should not have reached her from tl o East. [ .< I speaK not of th China war ; bir 1 allude to j j the suffering millions in British InJia, trodden < down and oppressed by British avarice; I ai^ j . lude to tiie oceans of blond which she lias shed j ? in that null ippy country?to the unjust aijd.-|' remorseless wars which she hag wag' d against ( a weari add timid race?to the slave-trade it- I celt, as it exists where her influence is para- t mount I read from a la'e paper: I "Tiie .If dk of conducting tiie Slvve?L Trips ni Buirisn !m>ia.?The following.. : is part of a statement mulehy the leader of a ( gang of slavers on the coast of Malacca, as . quoted in a late speech of Cord Brougham, j /; w:h be recollected that, if not actually sub- , jecteu. urn isn lunuence is paramount in "iai j country, whose capital was taken in 1607 , and is still reduc- d by England. I 41 1 left my home wit It a gang of forty Thugs, . an I proceeded to flusseeaguage, where H?e-. j ra 2) iss and Rock unmet* went, to the city of I ,t Mu'tra for the purpose of buying some clothes, : , and succeeded in winning the confidence of | f.?ur trauellers, two men and two women, with ; their three children, whom they brought j j with th'-m to our encampment; after passing j ( two days with u-\ Teeila Dan--, Eyrag^es, and t Down floskina, T-elake. Gongaram, Brmjar-j ( alts. 11 illtiek Da??. Ch trier Das?, Noput 1) tss, j , and llunoornan D iss prevailed on tiie funily j, to accompany them to Die banks of the Ju n- < t na, and murdered the four eideriy travellers t j in a garden near the village of G >kool. After j tlirowiug their bodies into the Jumue, .they j took their ilire* childrei to tiie tanda, or en- ! i cr.mpment, oi Dewa* Brmjaiah, ne.1r the viU | ( J age of Km ir, and so d the" two female ehi dfen i, tor forty rupees and the m ile lor rive rupees. | , One of .thrill, a woman says: "We now t went off to Thtineisor, where we eiiratned { . in a err.ve on t|?o tank, ami her.1 several par- ! , lies ?t travellers were inveigled by the wwes J* of the leaders of our I" Porn* and t .ko \ 5 u:> :h?.ir lutings .villi u&?i A Ciiumur, with ) \ hrce daughters, one thirty years of age. and i I he others y?)iinjr. 2. The widow of a car- I ( i rnter and h? r son, ton years of age, 3. A ; iralmiin and liis wife, with one beautiful j laughter fourteen years old. another fiv , and , ? eon six years of age. 4 A Bralim n and, < lis Wife, with one daughter about fourteen ' mother twelve, and a son three years of age. 1 These travellers lodged for two or three days . irnong the tenth" of the N aeks and Brinjaralia, | ifter which we all went one morning to a vil- j age in the territory of the ToorosC R?jab; I j orgct i?is nauio. IJere very heavy raid fe!J j it night, and deluged the country, and we gut ; ID rest. Tne next morning vve went to a j .ili.ige on the bank o< the canal, still in the j lame R-ijah'scountrv. 7'ne next day we went :o'a village on the bank of the Jumna; and wo hours after night Kaner I)ass proposed hat we should go down to the sacred stream >f the Jumna, say our prayers, auu remain :here. They all went down accordingly leav ng me, Roopia and his second wife (Rook, nuneej at the village. They murdered thejsevju men and women, and threw tiieir bodies into the river; but who killed them, or how hey were killed, I know not. Tne Cnuniac m,# i - - - n I arid ma eldest daughter, me two uranmins j and heir w ives, and the carpenter'* widow, | were all murdered. They brought the nine i children back to us a watch and half before j daylight. Thr-y were all crying a good deal ; after their parents, a'ld we quieted thein the j best way we could with sweetmeats and pUy. i things. W j came to Bcebeepore, and en- j camped in the grove. A daughter and son of the Brahmin's were extremely beautiful, | and these we left with Dhyan Sing for cale." j (L?rd Brougham continued, but fro in the low j tone in winch he spoke, and from the excitement under which lie labored, he was almost; inaudible, We understood him to speak as j fallows: I have no language-I have no power j of speech wherewith to give utterance to the | mixed feelings of pity and of horror which j must arise in the breast of every man i at such atrocities as these But it is j not necessary for mo to add one word to the account which I have read to j your lordships. I defy the most powerful ora* j tor to paint these attrocitics in colors more, striking?to place them in a light more appal- | hug, than they receive from the simple sta ft- j rnent of the facts themselves. Steeped in ' blood, no nation of the earth?nay, not Afri- I ca herself presented more appalling examples of the prononess to take aw.iy life?of the utter indifference as to liie taking away ofltfe? which distinguishes this revolting traffic. ... ? r i rv i 't ruly li >s L.or<i lirougnnni sa:u in me i nlinvc extract, 44 I defy the most [mwerful orator to paint these atrocities in colors more striking?to place thorn in fi light inoro appalling?than (hey receive from the simple statement of the fact themselves." But to return from this digression. I cannot believe that there can he h war, or even a serious difficulty between two nations having so many motives to preserve their amicable relations, upon a point like this. Politicians, like other | individuals, may effect sentiment, and j use set phrases about the interests of hu- j rnanitv; but the age is too utilitarian to j sacrifice real advantages upon a question j of not more importance than is involved ; in the controversy of whether the cruisers i of either, engaged in (ho suppression of the African slave trade, shall he allowed by visitation, and, if necessary, by examination, to ascertain Che nationality of a suspicious vessel hearing the Hag of the other. Both nations are, I believe, equally sincere in their endeavors to suppress this trade: hut I would make no concession upon the subject, andjif lvigland nt. lempts the exercise of a rigut to which i she is not entitled by the law of nations, she should he held responsible for the consequences. We know that her disposition is to encroach on the maritime rights of ail nations; and if the permit he i in inch, there is danger she will claim an < ill. I rejoice that there is no evidence of ihe African slave trade to this country, | iven to the minutest extent. I live in the centre of the slavcholding States, and represent one of the wealthiest agricuUurll districts in the Union, bordering for nany miles in the ocean, where slaves ! mve always been in active demand; hut J [never have, to the best of my know!- | ?dgc, seen or even or heard of an I Vfricau imported, since the la w of Coii-j ;ross prohibiting the African slave trade j irat went info effect. But, previous to the year 1803, who1 vere the peoplu in this country principal- j y engaged in the African slave trade, | tnd who fattened 0:1 its profits? The j >oople of that section of country now , ( eprosonted in pari nv me pi-niion,,,,, , rom Massarhtisets. The people of that i | section where there now exists an orgnn- I zed body of men hy whom wc of the South are slandered and denounced for loldiug slaves?by whom the freemen of the South are represented as a set of monsters, j without religion, without humanity, without rue virtue of any sort; who have their agonts , wherever they cm venture to spread their horal poison, and by whom thousands of coin- , nunicalions arc almost dai y published, cal- , rula'.ed to produce heartburnings and jealous- j es between the d tferent sections of the I jouutry, and to excite our slaves to murder i ind insurrection. 13 cause we refuse to these incendiaries. | who h've assumed the garbs of religion and j juinani'y the in ?re effectually to injure our ( epuUtions and disturb our peace, the privi- : egejof hav ng ih( ir slanders read at that desk J < ind deba'ed on this floor, the gentleman says I ;hat he had as well attempt to "reason with J i i whirlwind," and accuses us of having adop- ;, ed " an execrable rule that is driving this ( Union to its dissolution." j It is too late, Mr. Chairman, to discuss die policy of tfie coarso adopted by our pre- 1 jeeessors, and followed by ourselves, upon 1 .lie subject of abolition petitions. Whether I jiiginally w ise or not, a retreat from the posi- j ) ion assumed upon this subj ct would be j , egarded by the abolitionists as an evidence hit tuair principles were spreading on this' \ ?or. and encourage them to persevere in heir wild and destructive projects agaiust the j )?ace oftheSosi'h and the integrity of the, ~ t/i L _ I j [Jiiiuu. Oil tiiO otner nann, mma anu sue-, ;es*ive Congresses persevere in. the 21st rule, j; >r in any other of a similar character, they i ( vill, notwitmta.oding their lamentations for lie fancied suffering* of others?Qotwitli- I itandmg their phard?aical assumption of , superior piety, ultimately abandon their ' schemes ns Uitftdailiable through an ' \tncrican Congress, an i we he spared i from (lie agitation of this dangerous and * existing subject, the most portentous that lias ever been agitated in ihc history of tilt! world, llow favorably dies the oonilu' t of those Representatives from the non-slaveholding States who have, hv the r conduct, held out to their fellow. citizens of the South an assurance that their constitutional rights shall not ho invaded through this Huusrt, contrast with lhat of the gentleman and his associates, who, although themselves generally un. nfleeted by the nholition fanaticism, pursue a course which is calculated to produce discord between the different sections of the Union, and to encourage the nnemies of our institutions at home and abroad to persevere in their efforts to sow the seeds of dissension among us.J With one or two worthy exceptions the Whig party of non-slaveholding State." \ote with the gentleman from .Massachusetts upon this subject?with two or three exceptions the members of the Democratic party are to he found on the other side. I flatter myself that since the vote on the reception of the petitions from abolitionists to dissolve the Union, we shall have many more of the first named party voting with us on this question ; for surely they cannot, in the fare of their recorded votes upon the reception of those petitions, any longer say that it is a mutter of conscience with them to receive anil consider ail petitions. Should the parlies, however, continue divided, as they havr hitherto been on this subject, the South will not long doubt with which it it is hei true interest to unite. The friends ol the Union every where will not long doubt in the triumph of which there wil be the greatest security for its preservation. There are one or (wo gentlemen or (his door from (he slavpholding States who, although they believe that we are under no obligation to receive or conxidci abolition petitions, do nevertheless votf for their reception?in part, 1 believe from motives of conciliation and in pKi because they think that the South sliouh understand the true position of Northen gentlemen on the subject, that she may il necessary buckle on her armor and pre. pare for defence, YVi'h deference. I think these g ntlcmen are wron_r. Thr cloud of abolition may lower and throaVn but if not allowed to burst in this Hall it will lower and threaten in vain. Tin philanthropists, as they are culled, may lash each other's enthusiasm into fury by false representations of the suffering: of the slave, but if excluded from this Hall, their fury will be impotent, ami tin country go on to flourish and prosper a: though it did not contain within its hosoir a single cneuiv to its institutions. (I use the word "institutions," instead o "one of its institutions," for the tru* question which lies at the bottom of theii movements, is not emancipation, but dis solution of the Union.) If I were con rident that the reference of such petitions would produce the most favorable repor for the South that can be imagined, would be found whore 1 am now. SjcI action on tiie part of this House, no mat tor what might he the nature of the report woulJ only produce excitement at th< South and encourage the abolitionists t< persevere in their schemes. Such wa the effect of the celebrated report of thi comm ttec some years ago, of which Mr I'inckney of South Carolina was chair tm?i ?nd aiirh would tie the onlv elf c now. Whenever a proposition is ma<!< to ref*r and report upon such petitions you will find every abolitionist on thii floor voting for it?/io matter whethei the reference be to a commi'tee e.x?'lu. sively of .'northern or Southern gentle, men, or to a committee composed in pan of both. I call upon gentlemen front flit South who have hitherto voted lor tin reception of such petitions to coiisidei well what they do. This is a question to us of self preservation, that rises above all written or constitutional law. The assassin's dagger is aimed at our hearts.? Shall we hear our bosom* to receive tin stmke, or shall we manfully resist / I In not. gentlemen, allow the rights of your constituents to hold their properly to he discussed on this floor. Il you do. their bloody hearthstones may hereafter tell the tale of youi folly and of their misfortune. [To hr. Continued ] Fro i th j Now Orleans B ju of the 21st. a mob! Yesterday morning at an early hour, a large concourse of people assembled at the Place d'arrnes, under a high state ol excitement produced by the sudden depreciation of Municipality Notes. In consequence of the suddenness of resump. tion. the Municipalities had no opportuni tv of making provision for their out-stand. ing circulation. The meeting at the Place (VAmies crowded to the Mayor'.oflice, where they were informed thai the Councils of the Municipalities wotilc take measures to redeem their circulation us soon as possible. Since the suspension ttf specie payments the city issues have ilia ?. Anmul Irion) .-lnn<r#> IMfCtlla. MIJjpilCH J/l Ultljmi K/WHI 1 ion, and the outstanding amount of the three Municipalities reach at this time l>eyond a million of dollar*. The loss in lite depreciation of their notos falls princj. pally upon the poor, and it is not to he wondered at that there should have been some excitement when tlicy were refused to he taken as circulation. The meeting were apparently satisfied with the reply of the Mayer; hut sh rMy afterwards some evil dimo>^ persons ex. cited them ngainst the Brokers, who were charged, with more or le-s reason, as being the cause of the sudden depreciation. Tne assemblage moved io anger bv indi vidua! losses, and vet further irritated bv inflammatory speeches, assumed the as ? i r, . r , ?, ? f 11 ??iu amiuviv t* - *< o'clock, whilst looking over the mail, not^ in the least expecting an outbreak, our attention was arrested by n clamor in the streets, which proved to have been made by the incensed mob, on their way to J the Second Municipality to break up the i Brokers. We could form no accurate ea? I timate of the number of persons engaged in the riot, as a large portion of the crowd was attracted bv curiosity. The mob proceeded across Canal-street, and before there could he formed any organixed re? Hisfance went into several oT the limners ofTirp.s at and near ihe corner of Canal and Curnp.streets, which were completely rifled. J'he citizens, however, soon ascertained the object of the mob, and with commendable promptness put an end to , their depredations. It is imposa'ble to ? conceive how quickly the infuriated roa^s was put down. A few of our more rem( Into citizens were near the corner of Camp and Canal streets at the commencement of the outbreak, and without hesitalion went into the crowd and arrested *ev. e al of the ringleaders. An immense t ~ # i multitude soon assembled to sustain the ; ! laws, arj in less than the time it has tu1 ken to write tl.i* paragraph the riotera ' were suppressed. Some six or eight persons were arrested and taken to the .Municipal jail. Several persons were taken in the act of breaking - ?> ir I s | the windows id the limner* ointes, huh , ' grabbing the roin exhibited at the win| down. Several of the robbers, we arc sorry to *ay, escaped with their pillage. We remarked, amongst some of the ord- r'y citizens, persons who expressed great sympathy fur the rioters; but these . sentiments were soon substituted by deep disgust at the roguish nee* of such of * them as could lay their hands upon anv ' thing worth stealing. It so happens that * the most desperate and reckless of a mob ' always contrive to make a profit out of ^ i the commotion, whilst such as join the , rabble through weakness or thoughtless. : ncss invariably reap the evil conaequen. r i cos of the eme.ule. It was natural that t excitement should grow out of thud'pre. , elation of Municipality n?des; hut those I j who took advantage of the popular feeling I to get up an outbreak are the least wor. * thy, and 110 doubt, the greatest lasers by r it. After the mob was suppressed, the city was filled with all sorts of rumors ? i Vmongst others it was asserted, that the , i rioters had m *t at the lower part of the , city in gr at mi :ib ws, and we.o taking i I step# to rescue those that wore arrested. ' | The 2nd municipality prison was soon ' I surrounded by nn armed body of citizens, < under the command of Col. Manuel * White, a veteran ef 15. The militia s j was called out, and volunteers were armed 4 ; to preserve order. Several cornfuinief 1 were at two o'clock P. M. under arms, f j The cannons were loaded, and each anj. I dier eq lipped with a musket and several J roinds of ball cartridges. r S "veral unpleasant Mi stakes occured - during the confusion, as will always be * the case in a moment of such general * consternation and surprise. We Icara t : thai two of the drummers belonging to the I Legion were taken up and ruddy ban. 1 died, as they were parading the streets * beating up for volunteers. They wore , without their uniforms and mistaken for & persons belonging to the ;nob. One indi. <> vidual has been slightly wounded in the s band with a pi-to! shot. < mi _ 2 Charter si ret t looked like sunnny. ino stores were all closed, a .d business every where was entirely at an end as though t it were in truth the sabbath. There was a strong patrol out last night* "% , The city guards were trebled, and tho fvgion and Battalion had a heavy quota r ; in arms till morning, as it was intimated ; that the attempt to rescuo the prisoners j was to be made after nightfall. I j All good < iii/.ens should join together ; * Jo suppress further outrage. We have i seen the beginning of a mob; we have I . j seen it put flown by a few resolute arid i determined persona. The robberies coin* I milled by several of the ring-leaders, , betray too palpably the object of those who got up the tumult, 'l ite laws must 1 he preserved. And let those persons who i have real cause to complain, ask them. ' selves what good can come to them from : j such scones. Tney must make matter* worse. Meanwhile we would again call npo** our city officers, as wo did yesterday morning, to make provision b?r the re. ' dernpiion of municipal nr4es. There aro sufferers who were not convened in tho mob?who bear patiently a loss they are I tile able to meet. Let them be provided : lor. As if to quiet the turuult a heavy show, ei dispersed the multitude, and rio doubt considerably cooled the excitement of the insurgents. If further violence is attempted it should he met with firm, ness. ^" U'aii<ph IVII UUTm-K TlTSTRX. I I ? [ j XUGGKK. | We have the pleasure of announcing today , thrcoming fur emigration, ofth edespcrato , und cautious chief Halleck Tustennugge . on the 29ih ult. at the Warm Spring*, ! with all of his people, numbering upwards ,I of seventy, of whom seccders fro?n Okti. achee. Ma. Rdknap, of the 8th Infantry, from the field of operation, brings this welcome intelligence. Halleck Tusten. s nugge has ever occupied an important , petition among the indians, both in the council and fight, and in the war path was held to he h most desirable conquest, [ hut has ever abided rapture. Me was the leader of the party which murdered several of our people at Mandarian three , months, and on whose pursuit Col, Worth placed troops immediately en route. For sixteen weeks, has tie been chased with, out intermission?occasionally defending his position, until he was forced to flv to hi* last defence a few days since whtiii j he wad completely routed by Colonel